高濑信夫师范(七段),是合气道神流馆的馆主和新西兰合气会技术总监。“师范”是世界合气道总部给予大师级指导者的头衔。高濑老师是新西兰第一位“师范”,也是新西兰合气道的资深修习者。“师范”头衔,由创始人的孙子、现任合气道主植芝守央亲授于他。
高濑师范1947年2月6日生于日本姬路,他在日本伊势皇学馆大学读书期间,开始合气道修习。他的早期老师包括千叶和雄、金井满也、市桥纪彦、渡边信之师范及合气道创始人,和其他日本的合气道本部前辈师范。1969年,22岁的高濑师范怀着在新西兰传扬合气道的愿望移居于此,一直生活教学至今。
Takase Nobuo Shihan(7th Dan), is the Chief Instructor of Aikido Shinryukan and Technical Director for New Zealand Aikikai. Shihan is the title given by the World Aikido Headquarters to a master instructor or "professor" of Aikido. Takase Shihan is the first person to hold this title in New Zealand and is the senior Aikido practitioner in New Zealand. The title Shihan was presented to him by the Doshu Moriteru Ueshiba, Grandson of the Founder of Aikido, O-Sensei Morihei Ueshiba.
Born 6 February 1947 in Himeji, Japan, Takase Shihan began studying Aikido at Kogakkan University in Ise, Japan. His early teachers were Chiba, Kanai, Ichihashi and Watanabe Shihan and O-Sensei the founder of Aikido - and other senior World Aikido Headquarters Shihan in Japan. In 1969, at the age of 22, Takase Shihan emigrated to New Zealand with the intention of introducing the art of Aikido across the country.